I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S, ' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.